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Product leaders that apply world-changing technology breakthrough names to their yet-another cloned SaaS product deserve more shame. Antigravity would be a wor

by aeternum 11mo ago

Product leaders that apply world-changing technology breakthrough names to their yet-another cloned SaaS product deserve more shame. Antigravity would be a world-changing technology. This isn't.

stavros 11mo ago
Wait until you see Google Perpetual Motion Machine, their appointment-booking virtual assistant.
crazygringo 11mo ago
Why? There's nothing wrong with metaphor. And agentic coding is about working at a much higher conceptual level. Further from the ground. Antigravity is a functional metaphor. My only issue with it is that it's too long at five syllables, and "anti-" is an inherently negative connotation. I'm guessing this will eventually get renamed if it gets popular, much like Bard was.
- brazukadev 11mo ago
  They should not be too metaphorical when naming a clone, tho.
  - crazygringo 11mo ago
    Why not? And clone of what?
- nonameiguess 11mo ago
  As the parent said, actual anti-gravity is world-changing technology. It's telling the very laws of nature to go fuck themselves, you're gonna do what you want, even if all of known physics says it's impossible. Working at a higher conceptual level is just project management. You're the legislator giving out unfunded mandates rather than the agency staff that has to figure out how to comply. There's power there, but it isn't anti-gravity. That said, I suspect this is really meant to allude to https://xkcd.com/353/ https://xkcd.com/353/.
  - crazygringo 11mo ago
    > There's power there, but it isn't anti-gravity. That's why it's metaphor. "Operation Warp Speed" also delivered vaccines quickly, but not faster than the speed of light. The list of company and product names that are based on a metaphor that is very obviously exaggerated is endless. Google doesn't index a googol number of pages either.
    - bflesch 11mo ago
      I feel it's a bit ignorant of you to double down on your argument and compare a cloned product release by some macbook swinging google engineers with vaccination, which actually positively impacted many human lives.
      - crazygringo 11mo ago
        Are you for real? When someone disagrees, it's not "ignorance" or "doubling down". It's just legitimate disagreement. There's nothing I'm ignorant of here, so please don't throw around insults like that. I just continue to stand by the fact that naming products using exaggerated metaphor is standard practice. The idea that it is "shameful" or "ignorant" seems absurd. I think it's OK not to take it too seriously. Nobody is going to be confused and walk off of a cliff or something because the product is named "antigravity"... Do you get upset that the Milky Way candy bar doesn't actually contain a galaxy within? Or that the Chicago Bulls aren't as strong as actual bulls?
        brazukadev 11mo ago
        so your point is that you are policing what people think is shameful or ignorant? Is it too much to not think too high of a VSCode fork? Geez, people are still this impressed by big tech?
        crazygringo 11mo ago
        Since when did disagreeing become policing? But yes, if someone calls me ignorant without any justification, I'm going to disagree. And if you think that's "policing", I'm sorry but you seem to be the ignorant one here around the meaning of that word. "Geez," it's just a name. Is it too much to not get worked up over a perfectly innocent and fun name?
rvz 11mo ago
This 'Antigravity' software is far below the expected Google software engineering standards I have ever seen. Quite shocking to see that Google would consider using this crass software and is the most inefficient software libraries ever made. What were the engineers thinking?

Product leaders that apply world-changing technology breakthrough names to their yet-another cloned SaaS product deserve more shame. Antigravity would be a world-changing technology. This isn't.

stavros 11mo ago

Wait until you see Google Perpetual Motion Machine, their appointment-booking virtual assistant.

crazygringo 11mo ago

Why? There's nothing wrong with metaphor. And agentic coding is about working at a much higher conceptual level. Further from the ground. Antigravity is a functional metaphor. My only issue with it is that it's too long at five syllables, and "anti-" is an inherently negative connotation. I'm guessing this will eventually get renamed if it gets popular, much like Bard was.

brazukadev 11mo ago
They should not be too metaphorical when naming a clone, tho.
- crazygringo 11mo ago
  Why not? And clone of what?
nonameiguess 11mo ago
As the parent said, actual anti-gravity is world-changing technology. It's telling the very laws of nature to go fuck themselves, you're gonna do what you want, even if all of known physics says it's impossible. Working at a higher conceptual level is just project management. You're the legislator giving out unfunded mandates rather than the agency staff that has to figure out how to comply. There's power there, but it isn't anti-gravity. That said, I suspect this is really meant to allude to https://xkcd.com/353/ https://xkcd.com/353/.
- crazygringo 11mo ago
  > There's power there, but it isn't anti-gravity. That's why it's metaphor. "Operation Warp Speed" also delivered vaccines quickly, but not faster than the speed of light. The list of company and product names that are based on a metaphor that is very obviously exaggerated is endless. Google doesn't index a googol number of pages either.
  - bflesch 11mo ago
    I feel it's a bit ignorant of you to double down on your argument and compare a cloned product release by some macbook swinging google engineers with vaccination, which actually positively impacted many human lives.
    - crazygringo 11mo ago
      Are you for real? When someone disagrees, it's not "ignorance" or "doubling down". It's just legitimate disagreement. There's nothing I'm ignorant of here, so please don't throw around insults like that. I just continue to stand by the fact that naming products using exaggerated metaphor is standard practice. The idea that it is "shameful" or "ignorant" seems absurd. I think it's OK not to take it too seriously. Nobody is going to be confused and walk off of a cliff or something because the product is named "antigravity"... Do you get upset that the Milky Way candy bar doesn't actually contain a galaxy within? Or that the Chicago Bulls aren't as strong as actual bulls?
      - brazukadev 11mo ago
        so your point is that you are policing what people think is shameful or ignorant? Is it too much to not think too high of a VSCode fork? Geez, people are still this impressed by big tech?
        crazygringo 11mo ago
        Since when did disagreeing become policing? But yes, if someone calls me ignorant without any justification, I'm going to disagree. And if you think that's "policing", I'm sorry but you seem to be the ignorant one here around the meaning of that word. "Geez," it's just a name. Is it too much to not get worked up over a perfectly innocent and fun name?

rvz 11mo ago

This 'Antigravity' software is far below the expected Google software engineering standards I have ever seen. Quite shocking to see that Google would consider using this crass software and is the most inefficient software libraries ever made. What were the engineers thinking?